Index: /trunk/pstamp/scripts/pstamp_job_run.pl
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--- /trunk/pstamp/scripts/pstamp_job_run.pl	(revision 30000)
+++ /trunk/pstamp/scripts/pstamp_job_run.pl	(revision 30001)
@@ -277,9 +277,13 @@
         # silently skip them if they don't exist. Perhaps this should be
         # detected in pstampparse so that the user can be notified with 
-        # a message in parse_error.txt ("warp do not have a background model")
-        my $cmf_file = $params->{cmf} if ($options & $PSTAMP_SELECT_CMF);
+        # a message in parse_error.txt ("warp does not have a background model")
         my $psf_file = $params->{psf} if ($options & $PSTAMP_SELECT_PSF);
         my $backmdl_file = $params->{backmdl} if ($options & $PSTAMP_SELECT_BACKMDL);
         my $pattern_file = $params->{pattern} if ($options & $PSTAMP_SELECT_BACKMDL);
+        my $cmf_file;
+        if ($stage ne 'chip') {
+            # we don't ship chip stage cmf files because they may not be censored
+            $cmf_file = $params->{cmf} if ($options & $PSTAMP_SELECT_CMF);
+        }
 
         my $outdir = dirname($output_base);